I really hope Ovie's career doesn't go the way of Iginla. Ovie is a loyal person; people were telling him GTFO back in 2008. If I were him, I tell Leonsis "You get serious about winning a Cup or I want out"

Don't want to see a 36 year old Ovechkin trying to chase a Cup.

I was playing NHL 2014 and I was playing career mode. and I ended up with the caps. I got to calling him over check cuase he was killing everyone lol.

I love seeing the Avs playing well again. Even better to see EJ finally reaching his potential.

Yeah they don't settle into a funk for very long, that's for sure. Roy seems to identify the things they are struggling with and make enough corrections game to game. Some of it is obviously talent and injury related. But considering how horrible it was last season, I am totally enjoying this ride.

Yeah they don't settle into a funk for very long, that's for sure. Roy seems to identify the things they are struggling with and make enough corrections game to game. Some of it is obviously talent and injury related. But considering how horrible it was last season, I am totally enjoying this ride.

If we can swing a trade for a solid D man we'll be good. Next season we should have Siemens and Bigras come up to help fix the D fully.
I just hope we go D man heavy again in the draft.

Yeah they don't settle into a funk for very long, that's for sure. Roy seems to identify the things they are struggling with and make enough corrections game to game. Some of it is obviously talent and injury related. But considering how horrible it was last season, I am totally enjoying this ride.

That was the thing I wanted to see to determine how well Roy was coaching-- how they responded to funks and adversity. Under Sacco the team sunk into prolonged, season tanking funks (at one point during the Languishing for Landeskog season, they had two consecutive 10 game losing streaks sandwiched by a single win).

It was a popular counter argument that Sacco was a scapegoat and no coach could have gotten more out of the roster (granted, the blame Sacco argument was more popular). It should be readily apparent now that the lack of quality coaching was at the very least as big an issue as the roster, if not more of one. At least they got Duchene, Landeskog and MacKinnon as a result of five years of inept coaching... and now those players have a real coach.

That was the thing I wanted to see to determine how well Roy was coaching-- how they responded to funks and adversity. Under Sacco the team sunk into prolonged, season tanking funks (at one point during the Languishing for Landeskog season, they had two consecutive 10 game losing streaks sandwiched by a single win).

It was a popular counter argument that Sacco was a scapegoat and no coach could have gotten more out of the roster (granted, the blame Sacco argument was more popular). It should be readily apparent now that the lack of quality coaching was at the very least as big an issue as the roster, if not more of one. At least they got Duchene, Landeskog and MacKinnon as a result of five years of inept coaching... and now those players have a real coach.

Inept? Inept? Inept? He ran the same damn offensive play every game.
Dump puck, chase puck, hope puck goes in.
The mere fact that he got an extension under PL and EL was enough to know how nonsensical the Avs organization had become.
We have had more player development through 33 games of Roy's tenure than in the whole of Sacco's reign. That speaks volumes.
He was a idiot and it showed in his coaching and yet there are still some who believe that he wasn't the issue. It was Kroenke not wanting to spend.

Inept? Inept? Inept? He ran the same damn offensive play every game.
Dump puck, chase puck, hope puck goes in.
The mere fact that he got an extension under PL and EL was enough to know how nonsensical the Avs organization had become.
We have had more player development through 33 games of Roy's tenure than in the whole of Sacco's reign. That speaks volumes.
He was a idiot and it showed in his coaching and yet there are still some who believe that he wasn't the issue. It was Kroenke not wanting to spend.

The kronkes knew they were gonna build within, and that things would be tough. However with out the suckinrless who knows where we would be? The coaching was horrendous and I'm surprised they let sacco stay as long as he did. Its also cool they didn't blow the cap cause then we wouldn't have been able to pay for all the youth.. I'm just glad the team is headed in the right direction

Inept? Inept? Inept? He ran the same damn offensive play every game.
Dump puck, chase puck, hope puck goes in.
The mere fact that he got an extension under PL and EL was enough to know how nonsensical the Avs organization had become.
We have had more player development through 33 games of Roy's tenure than in the whole of Sacco's reign. That speaks volumes.
He was a idiot and it showed in his coaching and yet there are still some who believe that he wasn't the issue. It was Kroenke not wanting to spend.

Inept isn't a strong enough word? But yeah, we are in agreement. It was ridiculous he survived the 2010-11 season with how bad the team was, but I think a few years down the road we may find it serendipitous that he was retained long enough to land MacKinnon. It looks like Buffalo is going to have a top pick... if that keeps up Sacco may end up extending his coaching career working for teams who want to tank and stockpile blue chip talent in the draft.

I'll never forgive Jim Rutheford for trading Justin Williams. I'm sure Justin is happier in LA cruising around in his Lamborghini, but he was such a pivotal piece to this franchise, and his impact has yet to be replaced.

I'll never forgive Jim Rutheford for trading Justin Williams. I'm sure Justin is happier in LA cruising around in his Lamborghini, but he was such a pivotal piece to this franchise, and his impact has yet to be replaced.